Sentences with phrase «well as other public schools»

Of course, this also would mean that the Legislature would need to ensure that the proposed schools, as well as all other public schools, are supported with equitable and adequate funding.

Not exact matches

Municipal bonds are issued by state and local governments in the US as well as other public authorities, such as school districts.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

And Protestants possessed a sense of unity as well, mostly when confronted by Catholics seeking public money for parochial schools or Jews seeking to oust Bible readings from public schools and other practices that seemed to cross the church - state line.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

The popularity of the Meatless Monday campaign, started by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as well as other cultural factors, may have helped the popularity of vegetarian proteins.

There could be other factors involved as well, such as school - family incompatibility, multiple intelligences (where certain children learn best within environments that aren't offered in either public or private schools), as well as religious convictions and beliefs that aren't welcome in the public school system (creationism, for example).

I have struggled sometimes with conversations with other parents about what school is best, as my kids have moved from an amazing public elementary school to public middle school that has more challenges.

Other partners include Durham County, Durham Public Schools, Durham Technical Community College, North Carolina Central University as well as local businesses and non-profit organizations.

other issues such as education and vaccination decisions had to be made, and, while at first the young couple followed the norm and the first two of their children started out in public school and fully vaccinated, it just didn't sit well with the parenting style they'd developed.

ELMHURST — The Park District's newly constructed Safety Town will open to the public, as well as to school groups and other classes as soon as a schedule can be arranged, Richard Grodsky, Park District director, said this week.

Selective mutism (SM), formerly called elective mutism, is best understood as a childhood anxiety disorder characterized by a child or adolescent's inability to speak in one or more social settings (e.g., at school, in public places, with adults) despite being able to speak comfortably in other settings (e.g., at home with family).

The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.

QUEENS, NY — As part of her commitment to getting the school year off to a good start for all children, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is encouraging members of the public to once again donate backpacks and other school supplies to homeless children as part of «Project: Back to School,» an annual initiative organized by -LSB-..As part of her commitment to getting the school year off to a good start for all children, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is encouraging members of the public to once again donate backpacks and other school supplies to homeless children as part of «Project: Back to School,» an annual initiative organized by -LSschool year off to a good start for all children, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is encouraging members of the public to once again donate backpacks and other school supplies to homeless children as part of «Project: Back to School,» an annual initiative organized by -LSschool supplies to homeless children as part of «Project: Back to School,» an annual initiative organized by -LSB-..as part of «Project: Back to School,» an annual initiative organized by -LSSchool,» an annual initiative organized by -LSB-...]

Other outstanding budget issues include the amount and type of public school aid, as well as a slew of proposals to build infrastructure that Cuomo is touting.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez today rallied with religious school parents, kids and administrators in East Harlem for the passage of the controversial education investment tax credit — which would incentivize private donations for scholarships at parochial schools and other private schools, as well as public school scholarship funds.

Meanwhile, New York state's newly minted Education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, champions licensing illegal immigrants to teach in New York's public schools, as well as to practice 52 other regulated professions.

It's one of the biggest concerns among lawmakers and public employee unions as well as advocates for school districts, hospitals and other public services.

They highlighted the remarkable achievements of the governor that have impacted positively on their lives such as «prompt payment of monthly salaries / pensions, other allowances to state public and civil servants; absorption of 54 % of total cost of 100 housing units at Elim Estate allocated to workers; payment of outstanding arrears of salaries / pensions / allowances to Local Government Staff, through prudent utilization of 100 % of LG share of the Paris Club Refunds; promotion of teachers and recruitment of over 4000 school teachers as well as elongation of terminal grade of qualified primary school teachers to level 16».

That's a huge jump from the 16,119 full - time seats currently available inside public schools, as well as the more than 3,000 full - time seats available in community - based organizations, according to the joint report prepared by the mayor's office, the Education Department and other agencies.

The team, which also included David A. Rotholz, Ph.D., of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Anne M. Kinsman, Ph.D., of the Greenville Health System, and Kathi K. Lacy of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SC DDSN), as well as other leaders from key public and private stakeholder organizations from across the state, saw a way to remove this barrier.

Now, Nathan Wolfe of Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, along with colleagues at four other institutes, has shown that such infections occur under natural conditions as well.

Although these steps wont eliminate dander altogether — dander is so pervasive that it can be found even in homes that have never had pets, as well as in schools, shopping malls, and other public places — limiting the pets roaming area will reduce it.

Having established that the form of parental school choice offered within school districts is a harmful way of ability tracking, Burris uses that example to tarnish parental school choice in its other forms of public charter schooling and private school vouchers as well.

Our analysis of these data reveals that teachers transfer from one school to another — or exit the Texas public school system altogether — more as a reaction to the characteristics of their students than in response to better salaries in other schools.

Although Family Friendly Libraries is focusing on public libraries, its founder says the organization is interested in school, prison, and other libraries as well.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

Some view school choice as a social good in and of itself, while others may have indirect objectives, such as funneling public funds to religious schools or privatizing public education.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

Below are links to information as well as articles and other media coverage featuring Edwards Middle School from media outlest including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and National Public Radio.

The exhibit, in which 15 teachers demonstrated their work through posters, attracted an audience of graduate students, administrators, and educators from other communities, as well as representatives from Project Zero and the Center for Collaborative Education, an organization that partners with public schools and districts «to create and sustain effective and equitable schools.»

You can choose additional courses — in human development, mind and brain research, social policy, and organizational leadership — from every department of HGSE, and from other schools at Harvard — including the Harvard Business School, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Harvard Kennedy School — as well as at MIT — through cross-registration.

The Soil Association's Food for Life Catering Mark works extensively in schools, nurseries and universities (as well as in other public settings, such as hospitals and care homes).

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

By providing access to private and parochial schools as well as charter and other public schools, vouchers begin to level the playing field for families from lower income backgrounds.

(p. 5) Tyack & Cuban: «In the firm belief that they were the trustees of the public interest, superintendents and other policy elites of the first half of the century tended to dismiss their opponents as ignorant or self - interested... They regarded the rural foes of school consolidation as backward yokels who did not know what was good for their children.»

The other irony, as Tony Bryck and the co-authors of the now - classic 1992 study, Catholic Schools and the Common Good, discovered, is that by virtue of their rigor Catholic schools (once) did a better job educating ordinary kids, including the poor, than did public sSchools and the Common Good, discovered, is that by virtue of their rigor Catholic schools (once) did a better job educating ordinary kids, including the poor, than did public sschools (once) did a better job educating ordinary kids, including the poor, than did public schoolsschools.

Students can investigate possible internships in diverse educational contexts (e.g., in schools and alternative educational settings, higher education, NGOs, research organizations and labs, public agencies and non-profits, museums, private corporations, technology, as well as other professional settings related to their academic studies.

Enota staff looked at programs offered in several other states and welcome visitors to their school as well: The Key Learning Community is a successful K - 12 public school in Indianapolis.

This is a book with plenty of «lessons learned» for charter schools — and for other urban public schools as well.

• Risk underestimated the resistance to change from the organized interests of the K - 12 public education system, at the center of which were the two big teacher unions as well as school administrators, colleges of education, state bureaucracies, school boards, and many others.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

The project unites the expertise of the Public School Forum with the Massachusetts Trauma & Learning Policy Initiative at Harvard Law School and the Duke Center for Child & Family Policy, as well as other nonprofit and academic institutions.

The other thing that we're really looking at, and this is coming from our state and local school district affiliates, as people have now started to see charter schools as: Wow, there are studies that say they are really no better, depending on which charter schools and how selective they are, and they're not really improving the public schools the way the original concept had hoped.

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos addressed a standing - room only crowd on Tuesday, expressing her support of the charter movement as well as other forms of school choice including traditional public education, private schools, and vouchers.

Meanwhile American public education fuels the nation's school - to - prison pipeline that traps Black, as well as other minority and immigrant children, onto paths of despair.

At A + Denver, we believe that Denver Public Schools stands a good chance at being awarded some of these dollars and many other Colorado districts should consider applying as well, given the favorable policy environment in Colorado.